Isaac Asimov Quotes
The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.
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In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushman would very soon go mad.
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I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.
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I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.
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The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
